THE MYSTERY OF MISS MILNE
HANDSOME MAN. AND LADY it ECLU«E. : OLiE OF TELEPHONE CALL. The 'murder of Mists Joan Milne, a ! ricn and elderly <pinstcr lending a iu..-. !y iii'o at Droughty Ferry, a quiet : iVMurniiai suburb of Dundee, con- . tiiu,.';-' .i) bafile the police of Scotland and London. It is' a murder without a motive, and a mystery almost, without a chic. : Til-- story m the en me rends like , the plot of a sensational novel. I Ls l!iv cutting of the telephone wires to prevent sudden alarm, fingerprints left on a candle. the stump of I a ci'.'.ar in the fire-place, tiie appoarjance of a handsome mysterious ! strange man in evening dress, ajid nlso i a n; ;:-or car. j,-, 1; . ,i,. nr !y three-weeks Miss: Miln'sI ;tly lav im(liser)ver<\l in her lonely house, Elmgrove. "When the door was for:-*-;! on November !2. Miss "Milne v.-as foi'nd lying dend in the hall at the foot (if tie.' staircase. Hi>r limbs were '. tied, fil'd ■'••he lad apparently heen at- i i tacked on the. Hmd with a poker whieii ■ | was lvirg near. j I Mivs ?,!ilm. ;i-.-..ea.r.s to have h >on a : '••rimn.n with a dual personal it v. A re- ' c|!•.<•• . i !; ;1 |ime!y houw in Broughty T-Vrrv. ;-.he hungered after the social !>!.-:i-n-e-i of i'ltv cities —a romark- , ;dde paradox of personalisy in a woman who. h:id reached the age of .six- . ; tv-oiglit. ]"?e.«ervo<l iu her own home she was indiscreet in her confidences i among istrangors. and on more than ! one 'occasion this indiscretion ho*. . j made? her a victim of chance pick- ' I pockets. j VAXTSFEO. | But the motive for her murder was i not t]io crude worV of an roportuT»«t. thief for mo.;v\v and valuables nm l wr _ sonal property were loft in the house. Tim motive for the muvde" '"in he found —if it is found at all —in the stranrro. and secret manner of her life. People whom she may have met in her froquenl visits to London and the Continent can the only clue to the crime: and it w for these people the. police ai'o searching. s l«y e f/ardnor ami hy a maidservant in a neighbouring house show that about the time Miss "\fihm wap last seen alive she was visited liv "n tell, i'air-1 ••oed-slrouklererl in evening dress," a man with whom she was on intimate terms. This is one of the men for whom the police arc pen''chine:. According to the lat,,Sj- renort-s he has vanished from London, where the police wore seeking him. The. name and the address of the wanted mn-n we'-e forwarded to London, hut when, the police arrived he had disappeared. Two rln-vp after Miss Milne was sunposed to luivo keen mm-dered a" effort Avas made to establish telephonic communication with the house, hut, tkio wire<; having keen cut close to the instrument, the attempt war-i unsuccessful. The call was ro.ooiv<Hl from London en or nhout Octohe- IS, and the police are seeki-i.-lodged the call. SEAEOH FOB A GTEI*. Seareliine inquiries linve. heen marie at the hotels and railway stations in Dundee, hut the hotelkeepers ea"■not recall a,ny guest who resembled the. description of the "tall, fair, handsome man." circulated hy the police Tt i,s certain tliat he did. not stay in a Dundee hotel for even one. night ahm.it the time the crime was committed. No hotter result rewarded inquiries at the stations. All the officials who have boon on duty on October T)th and 16th have boon -in- : terrogatcid, hut none had observed the wanted man. The police have taken many photo- ' graphs of the exterion and interior of Miss Milne's house, but so far they have been discharging clues rather than finding them. A cigar clue broke down with the discovery of the owner, and the story of a taxi-cab hired : late at night and dismissed near Mi*s Milne's house also colla.p.sod. The latest clue on which the, local ■ pohce are working is- an attempt to get into communication with, a girl who at one time was employed to Miss Milne. It is thought she may i be a.hle to throw some definite light on Miss Milne's mode, of life.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 January 1913, Page 3
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